~[My son] is at that age now where he's so loving and says the sweetest things to me. Of course, I still get karate chops and all those other sort of things, too.~

I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.

There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone's spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that's beautiful to me.

Oh, my God, this amazing cool breeze is coming through my window and the sun is shining. I'm happy.

I love my dad, although I'm definitely critical of him sometimes, like when his pants are too tight. But I love him so much and I try to be really supportive of him.

Beauty comes from the happiness within.

I love to go shopping at Target. They have so much stuff there, you can buy almost anything, it's really amazing.

I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.

Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.

I've sung my whole life. I've taken lots of voice lessons and I love to sing. But I've never really sung professionally at all.

Hopefully, I can continue to do anything I want. I just want to do things that I'm passionate about in this life.

To breathe, to breathe is nothing more than confirmation of the existence of your soulwhether you believe it or not, whether you live or cease to fight

He did not profess to anybody how to reach others without professing.

Take care of yourselves

Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.

Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott.

I wish I was a better athlete. That would have been a little cooler, being a great boxer and walking into a room and going: "I can knock everybody out!" That's a good feeling.

The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful and a snootful at the same time?

Owning your curves means being confident - actually being confident - in your own skin.

There's a difference between a mystery and a question. Questions demand answers, but a mystery demands something more valuable-explanation.

The thing is, I have a zillion apps, and I'm always looking for the perfect arrangement for them, so scrambling my home screen is part of that eternal quest.